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Either/Or plays Prina at Wesleyan

  • Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery 283 Washington Terrace Middletown, CT, 06459 United States (map)

To kickoff its Fall 2026 season, Either/Or travels to Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. EO will reprise its Fall 2025 performance of artist Stephen Prina's String Quartet for 6 Players (1976) during the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery’s exhibit Mozart's Chair. Prina’s work is a Fluxus-era deconstruction of Mozart's String Quartet No. 15 in D min K.421/417b. With doubled violins, the group plays the opening exposition as written, after which a single die is thrown periodically, sending the player whose number is rolled back to the beginning. The result is a fascinating aural landscape of Mozartian lines woven together in continually unexpected ways.

The piece will be performed twice in the gallery. Exact start times TBA.

Personnel 
Violin - Leah Asher, Conrad Harris, Josh Henderson, Hajnal Pivnick
Viola - John Biatowas; cello - Alex Waterman
Die thrower - Chris McIntyre

Stephen Prina - ”String Quartet for Six Players, No. 1, 1976” - 2023
Acrylic, ink, and graphite on polyester drafting film